"She sent me an email that she did the best thing for our family," Richard Berman told the dispatcher on his way to the house where he once lived before his divorce last year. "And then she sent her cousin a text that she was going to kill the kids and herself."

When asked by the dispatcher if there were any weapons at the home, Richard Berman recalled the old rifle that belonged to her father.

While Richard Berman waited for police to arrive, his neighbor went inside the home and discovered the bodies of Jennifer Berman and their teenage children, Alex and Jackie Berman.